Slough Feg and Black Cobra

Published: Thursday, July 31, 2008

Are you ready to RAWK? I SAID, are you . . . oh, never mind. Check this out:Slough Feg–previously known as ‘The Lord Weird Slough Feg’–is a San Francisco-based heavy metal band. The group, which takes its name from the Celtic folklore comic ‘Slaine,’ formed in Central Pennsylvania but relocated to California with the hopes of “resurrecting the Heavy Metal scene in America.”

Black Cobra is a doom and sludge metal band from Los Angeles formed in 2002 by Jason Landrian and Rafael Martinez. Black Cobra is loud. “Just try to socialize over the decibels emitted,” dares SF Weekly.